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Amur leopard fact file
Amur leopard description
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Carnivora Family Felidae Genus Panthera Amur leopard biology Leopards are predominately solitary and are active mainly during the night. Individuals occmammals
Leopards are skilful hunters, stalking their prey to within a striking distance of a few metres, and feeding opportunistically on a wide range of animals
Amur leopard range The range of the Amur leopard previously encompassed the Amur River basin and the mountains of northeastern China and the Korean peninsula
Amur leopard habitat Occurs in any area that provides reasonable cover in temperate forests
Amur leopard status Back To TopClassified as Critically Endangered (CR) on the IUCN Red List
Amur leopard threats The Amur leopard has been systematically hunted out of most of its former range for its coat and for the bones that are used in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Amur leopard conservation TopThe leopard is protected but a proactive conservation effort is needed immediately if one of the most stunning of the big cats is to be saved from extinction. Efforts to save the Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) in the same area are showing signs of success but the leopard has been largely overlooked until now
Find out more More information on the Amur leopard:
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Anglo-Russian conservation organisation ‘AMUR’ website:
http://www.amur.org.uk -
Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA):
http://www.altaconservation.org/ -
WWF – UK:
http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/safeguarding_the_natural_world/wildlife/amur_leopard/
Further information on threatened cats:
- IUCN Cat Specialist Gromammals
Authentication
TopAuthenticated (16/02/05) by Sharon Miller, Director of AMUR,
http://www.amur.org.uk and Peter Jackson, Chair, IUCN Cat Specialist GromammalsGlossary
- NGOs
- Non-Governmental Organisations.
- Subspecies
- A population usually restricted to a geographical area that differs from other populations of the same species, but not to the extent of being classified as a separate species.
References
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IUCN Red List (February, 2005)
http://www.redlist.org - IUCN Cat Specialist Gromammals
- Macdonald, D. (2001) The New Encyclopedia of Mammals. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA) - Amur leopard factfile (March, 2013)
http://www.altaconservation.org/amur-leopard/amur-leopard-factfile/ - Miller, S. (2005) Pers. comm.
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Tigris Foundation, Amur leopard Conservation Annual Progress Report, October 2001 (July, 2002)
http://www.tigrisfoundation.nl/cms/publish/content/downloaddocument.asp?document_id=42
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